| Joel Peter Witkin: What I try to achieve is a collaboration between their phantasies and my own. |
| It is based on the insight that repressed feelings, experiences and phantasies block mental and physical experience. |
| Narcissism and narcissistic identification both involve phantasies of power, omnipotence, mastery and control. |
| You are disconnected from your body, from your here and now, and so you drift unconsciously through your innocuous phantasies. |
| What many patients experience is an awakening of emotions which they have never had, rather than a repetition of phantasies from the past. |
| Which cannot be said of Arbus, to the extent in which her photographs are but signifiers of her own phantasies or projections. |
